Assignment:
Examine a recent editorial from your newspaper of choice. You can use: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Etc. Or whatever relevant and "real" newspaper you feel has an appropriate editorial page (but you cannot use papers like "The Penny Pincher" or the "Auto Trader" etc.) You must use a reputable real newspaper, one that is in circulation somewhere. Again, it must be a "real" newspaper, not a "blog type news source" where everything by anyone gets published. I want you to choose an editorial that interests you written by one of these "editorial experts." It should be an article about something that is worth commenting about. Choose one that you see is full of Critical Thinking Errors.
Read the author's editorial and then using what you learned in the Ruggiero text about "The Pitfalls" (Chapters 8-13) write an editorial back to the author that is worthy to be published in that very same newspaper. Point out to the author his/her "errors in reasoning" and then offer your perspective on what is a better way to view the issue being discussed. Make sure you specifically use some (many?) of the definitions about "errors in reasoning" found in your text and why the author's editorial might contain such errors.
Remember, you are to write your rebuttal back to the author of the article, not to me (the professor). Again, it is important and necessary that you point out using the vocabulary of the Ruggiero text the errors in reasoning you see in that Editorial. Failure to use that vocabulary will result in a weak assignment. The students who get the highest grades in this assignment are the ones who integrate many of the errors in reasoning that Ruggiero mentions in the text. So, choose your editorial article wisely...one that has many errors in it!